Demand for spiny lobsters has escalated in the past two decades, spurring the need both for better management and for research on which to base that management.

Spiny Lobsters features:

• One of the world's most valuable seafoods so management essential
• Demand has escalated recently leading to overfishing and need for better management
• Intense interest in farming spiny lobsters, now on the brink of becoming economically viable
• Contributors are amongst the most authoritative experts worldwide

Contents

Fisheries: Methods, Management and Status

1. The Status of Australia's Rock Lobster Fisheries
2. New Zealadnd's Rock Lobster Fisheries
3. Fisheries for Spiny Lobsters in the Tropical Indo-West Pacific
4. The Lobster Fishery in the North-western Hawaiian Islands
5. The Commercial Fisheries for Jasus and Palinurus Species in the South-east Atlantic and South-west Indian Oceans
6. The State of the Lobster Fishery in North-east Brazil
7. The Cuban Spiny Lobster Fishery
8. The Atlantic Spiny Lobster Resources of Central America
9. The Spiny Lobster Fisheries in Mexico
10. Status of the Fishery for Panulirus argus in Florida
11. The French Fisheries for the European Spiny Lobster Palinurus elephas
12. The Galápagos Spiny Lobster Fishery
13. The Spiny Lobster Fishery in Japan and Restocking

Research for Management: Case Studies

14. Reproductive Biology: Issues for Management
15. Puerulus and Juvenile Ecology
16. Stock Identity of the Red (Jasus edwardsii) and Green (Jesus verreauxi) Rock Lobsters Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Analysis
17. Spiny Lobster Catches and the Ocean Environment
18. Measurements of Catch and Fishing Effort in the Western Rock Lobster Fishery
19. Predicting the Catch of Spiny Lobster Fisheries
20. Bioeconomic Modeling of the New Zealand Fishery for Red Rock Lobsters (Jasus edwardsii)
21. Modelling for Management: The Western Rock Lobster Fishery
22. The Artifical Shelters (Pesqueros) Used For the Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) Fisheries in Cuba
23. The Use of Artificial Shelters (Casitas) in Research and Harvesting of Caribbean Spiny Lobster Fisheries in Cuba
24. Recreational Spiny Lobster Fisheries

Aquaculture and Marketing

25. Prospectus for Acquaculture
26. Maturation
27. Breeding
28. Culture of Larval Spiny Lobsters
29. Water Quality and Microflora in the Culture Water of Phyllosomas
30. Spiny Lobster Growout
31. Diseases of Spiny Lobsters
32. Functional Morphology of the Digestive System
33. Nutrition and Food
34. Colour Taste
35. Shipping
36. Export Marketing of Australian and New Zealand Spiny Lobsters
37. Marketing and Distribution in Japan

Perspectives

38. Perspectives

Index

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